[Jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBossCache] - Re: Improper handling of TXs in JBossCache?

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Yes, I don't think using an XAResource would change anything here. In the original scenario, you *have* to be able to complete the COMMIT successfully once you voted for PREPARE. So, if a communication problem occurs sending the COMMIT decision to cluster member P, then P should be excluded from the cluster. Example: if P crashed between acking the PREPARE and receiving the COMMIT, we are fine, because when P is restarted, it will get the entire in-memory state from the cluster coordinator.
The difficult case is the following: what happens if there is a *temporary* situation which prevents us from sending the COMMIT message to P, but which does *not* exclude P from the cluster ? Retry COMMIT(P) until 
- COMMIT(P) is successful or
- there is a view excluding P ?
I think the above mechanism would work quite nicely, because the fail-stop model of JGroups says that a member either successfully receives all messages, or it fails and is excluded from the group. So, COMMIT(P) would be either successfully delivered if there is only a temporary communication problem, or P would be excluded from the cluster group and therefore COMMIT(P) would not *have* to be delivered, assuming that we deliver messages only to non-faulty cluster members.
The issue here though is that we need to tackle the problem of a network partition and subsequent merge...

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